We take a look at five of the best non-conference games scheduled every season between 2014 and 2023, not counting annual rivalry games such as Clemson vs. South Carolina and Florida vs. Florida State. This compilation also ignores games without dates and games featuring Notre Dame. We're of course basing this on the current prestige of the programs involved, because who knows what currently irrelevant teams will be influential a decade from now?

Most of these are home-and-home series, and plenty of hundreds of games remain to be scheduled, but here we go ...

2014

Wisconsin vs. LSU, Aug. 30 (at Houston)

Oklahoma State vs. Florida State, Aug. 30 (at Arlington)

Clemson at Georgia, Aug. 30

Texas vs. UCLA, Sept. 13 (at Arlington)

Virginia Tech at Ohio State, Sept. 20

2015

Alabama vs. Wisconsin, Sept. 5 (at Arlington)

Auburn vs. Louisville, Sept. 5 (at Atlanta)

Stanford at Northwestern, Sept. 5

Ohio State at Virginia Tech, Sept. 7

Nebraska at Miami, Sept. 19

2016

LSU vs. Wisconsin, Sept. 3 (at Lambeau Field)

Virginia Tech vs. Tennessee, Sept. 7 (at Bristol Motor Speedway)

Oregon at Nebraska, Sept. 17

Ohio State at Oklahoma, Sept. 17

Northwestern at Stanford, Sept. 24

2017

Maryland at Texas, Sept. 2

Nebraska at Oregon, Sept. 9

Georgia Tech at Ole Miss, Sept. 9

Oklahoma at Ohio State, Sept. 16

Texas at USC, Sept. 16

Texas and USC will square off in 2017 for the first time since the 2006 BCS National Championship Game.(Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY)

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